Keith J. O'Hara

teaching

CMSC 143

Object-Oriented Programming with Robots (F2009)

overview | logistics | schedule | announcements | assignments | labs | resources

Schedule changes frequently.

week	date	topics	concepts introduced	readings	labs and homework
1	8/31/2009	course introduction		syllabus
	9/2/2009	What is computation?		What is Computation? by Ian Horswill
	9/4/2009	personal robots	statements; comments	LCwR Ch. 1 & Ch. 2	lab 1
2	9/7/2009	modularity I: robot brains	functions; repetition	LCwR Ch. 3
	9/9/2009		variables; types	TP Ch. 2
	9/11/2009		expressions		lab 2
3	9/14/2009	sensing I		LCwR Ch. 4
	9/16/2009		conditionals	TP Ch. 3 and TP Ch. 5.1-5.7	Sing and Dance Assignment
	9/18/2009				lab 3
4	9/21/2009	sensing II	loops, accessing lists	LCwR Ch. 5
	9/23/2009		iteration	TP Ch. 7
	9/25/2009			LCwR Ch. 6	lab 4
5	9/28/2009	collecting and analyzing data	recursion	TP Ch. 5.8-on
	9/30/2009		creating lists	TP Ch. 6
	10/2/2009			TP Ch. 8	lab 5
6	10/5/2009	multiple robots	objects
	10/7/2009	graphics	classes; methods	LCwR Ch. 8 & TP Ch. 15
	10/9/2009				lab 6
7	10/12/2009	FALL BREAK	FALL BREAK	FALL BREAK	FALL BREAK
	10/14/2009	randomness
	10/16/2009				Performance Assignment
8	10/19/2009	review
	10/21/2009	MIDTERM	MIDTERM	MIDTERM	MIDTERM
	10/23/2009	defensive programming	exceptions; unit tests; pre- and post-conditions		lab 7
9	10/26/2009	manipulating images	lists; mutability	LCwR Ch. 9
	10/28/2009		color spaces; 2D-arrays	TP Ch. 10
	10/30/2009				lab 8
10	11/2/2009	analyzing images
	11/4/2009		What Robots See and watch The Great Robot Race -- Chapter 1: A Hard Problem
	11/6/2009	sharing special effects	code review		lab 9 SFX Assignment
11	11/09/2009	exporting data	storage hierarchy; file output	LCwR Ch. 10 & TP Ch. 14
	11/11/2009	analyzing text	file input; dictionaries	TP Ch. 11
	11/13/2009				lab 10
12	11/16/2009	building brains	higher-order functions
	11/18/2009	ADVISING	ADVISING	ADVISING	ADVISING
	11/20/2009			LCwR Ch. 7
13	11/23/2009	functional programming	map, reduce, lambda, list comprehensions	"Introduction to Functional Programming"	Movie Assignment
	11/25/2009	movie screening
	11/27/2009	THANKSGIVING	THANKSGIVING	THANKSGIVING	THANKSGIVING
14	11/30/2009	games	creating classes
	12/2/2009		operator overloading	TP Ch. 17
	12/4/2009				Cockroach Assignment & lab 11
15	12/7/2009	simulation	inheritance; polymorphism	TP Ch. 18
	12/9/2009
	12/11/2009				lab 12
16	12/14/2009	review
	12/16/2009	beyond python and myro			Final Assignment
	12/18/2009	FINAL	FINAL	FINAL	FINAL